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Definition: Da Vinci |
Da VinciNoun1. Italian painter and sculptor and engineer and scientist and architect; the most versatile genius of the Italian Renaissance (1452-1519). Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Synonyms: Da VinciSynonyms: Leonardo (n), Leonardo da Vinci (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Da Vinci |
| English words defined with "da Vinci": Leonardesque, Leonardo da Vinci. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "da Vinci": Painters and Artists ♦ VINCI. (references) |
| Domain | Usage | |
Screenplays | In Italy for 30 years under the Borgias they had warfare, terror, murder, and bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. (The Third Man; writing credit: Graham Greene; Alexander Korda) | |
Movie/TV Titles | La Vita di Leonardo Da Vinci (1972) Leonardo da Vinci (1952) Pink Da Vinci (1975) | |
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| Author | Quotation |
Leonardo Da Vinci | Our life is made by the death of others. |
| Intellectual passion drives out sensuality. | |
| Time stays long enough for those who use it. | |
| God sells us all things at the price of labor. | |
| Just as courage imperils life; fear protects it. | |
| The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. | |
| All our knowledge has its origins in our perceptions. | |
| Lying on a feather mattress or quilt will not bring you renown. | |
| Men of lofty genius when they are doing the least work are most active. | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Da Vinci also developed the idea that the spinal cord transmits sensations to the brain. (references) | |
Leonardo da Vinci and his contemporaries came to believe that the brain was the central organ responsible for sensation. (references) | ||
Economic History | Italy | Near term investments are still being made by both the private and the public sector for airport expansion (i.e. traffic control systems at the Milan International Airport "Malpensa 2000"), for upgrading of existing infrastructures (i.e. Bari Palese airport, Rome Leonardo da Vinci airport), and purchase of ground support equipment and systems. (references) |
Italy | Literary achievements--such as the poetry of Petrarch, Tasso, and Ariosto and the prose of Boccaccio, Machiavelli, and Castiglione--exerted a tremendous and lasting influence on the subsequent development of Western civilization, as did the painting, sculpture, and architecture contributed by giants such as da Vinci, Raphael, Botticelli, Fra Angelico, and Michelangelo. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
Expression using "da Vinci": Leonardo da Vinci. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| Language | Translations for "da Vinci"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Danish | Anden fase af Fællesskabets handlingsprogram for erhvervsuddannelse Leonardo da Vinci (LEONARDO DA VINCI II, Second phase of the Community vocational training action programme Leonardo da Vinci). (various references) | |
Dutch | Tweede fase van het communautaire actieprogramma inzake beroepsopleiding Leonardo da Vinci (LEONARDO DA VINCI II, Second phase of the Community vocational training action programme Leonardo da Vinci). (various references) | |
Finnish | Yhteisön ammatillista koulutusta koskeva Leonardo da Vinci -toimintaohjelma (LEONARDO DA VINCI II, Second phase of the Community vocational training action programme "Leonardo da Vinci"). (various references) | |
French | Deuxième phase du programme d'action communautaire en matière de formation professionnelle "Leonardo da Vinci". (various references) | |
German | Zweite Phase des gemeinschaftlichen Aktionsprogramms in der Berufsbildung "Leonardo da Vinci". (various references) | |
Greek | "εύτερο στάδιο του κοινοτικού προγράμματος δράσης στον τομέα της επαγγελματικής κατάρτισης "Leonardo da Vinci". (various references) | |
Italian | Seconda fase del programma d'azione comunitaria in materia di formazione professionale "Leonardo da Vinci". (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | ダン"ング関税 (anti-dumping duties, dump, dump truck). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ダヴィンチ . (various references) | |
Pig Latin | aday incivay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | Segunda fase do programa comunitário de acção em matéria de formação profissional "Leonardo da Vinci". (various references) | |
Spanish | Segunda fase del programa de acción comunitario en materia de formación profesional " Leonardo da Vinci". (various references) | |
Swedish | Andra etappen av gemenskapens åtgärdsprogram för yrkesutbildning Leonardo da Vinci (LEONARDO DA VINCI II, Second phase of the Community vocational training action programme "Leonardo da Vinci"). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-d-i-i-n-v" | |
-1 letter: avidin. | |
-2 letters: acini, canid, divan, nicad, viand, vinca, vinic. | |
-3 letters: acid, avid, cadi, caid, cain, diva, inia, nidi, vain, vina. | |
-4 letters: aid, ain, and, ani, cad, can, din, vac, van, via. | |
-5 letters: ad, ai, an, id, in, na. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-d-i-i-n-v" | |
+2 letters: vindicate. | |
+3 letters: deviancies, indicative, vindicable, vindicated, vindicates, vindicator. | |
+4 letters: inactivated, indicatives, valediction, vandalistic, vaticinated, vindicating, vindication, vindicative, vindicators, vindicatory. | |
+5 letters: civilianized, coordinative, deactivating, deactivation, denunciative, devocalizing, divaricating, divarication, indicatively, nonaddictive, valedictions, vindications. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)44 61      56 69 6E 63 69 |
| Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519; backwards) (references)
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000100 01100001 00100000 01010110 01101001 01101110 01100011 01101001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)D a   V i n c i |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0044 0061      0056 0069 006E 0063 0069 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)386725675806975 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Crosswords 4. Usage: Modern | 5. Usage: Commercial 6. Images: Slideshow 7. Quotations: Familiar 8. Quotations: Non-fiction | 9. Expressions 10. Translations: Modern 11. Anagrams 12. Orthography | 13. Bibliography |
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